A Recap of the Week Including an Update on the No Patient Left Alone Act

HB648, HB182, HB399, and HB291

It has been a wild week!!

If you’ve been following along, you will notice that we have a new bill number in the subtitle: HB463 by Rep Gabe Firment - the bill to prohibit “gender affirming care” for minors - had an amendment added that replaced the entire bill so it is now HB648.

What an INTERESTING hearing for Rep Firment’s bill this past Tuesday, May 2nd in House Health and Welfare. Much of the testimony has gone viral, including the fascinating comment from a mother describing how her child’s food choice indicated the child was in the wrong body. The testimony of those in support of these procedures only affirms how convoluted and unsupported the argument is for this incredibly harmful treatment.

Rep Firment has assembled an amazing team to help offer support for this legislation including some very courageous victims of these medical procedures who traveled from across the country to testify in support. It was a remarkable day with an incredible vote in support: the 14-3 vote includes support from these Democrats: Adams, Cox, T. Johnson, Miller, and Moore. The only Democrats opposed were Hughes, Selders, Stagni. Yes, Stagni. Let’s just call Stagni him what he is, a Democrat.

Rep Firment stood firm against attempts to water the bill down with an amendment from Rep Jason Hughes, and then offered a simple, yet profound, closing.

HB648 moves to the House floor for a vote. We will let you know when that happens.

Meanwhile in House Education Committee…

HB399 by Rep Kathy Edmonston is much needed legislation that will require schools to simply inform parents and student of the exemption portion of the vaccine law for school requirements. The bill passed favorably with a vote of 7-3. Again, all Democrats opposed. Why are Democrats afraid of informed consent for their constituents? As always, there was one organization in opposition: Louisiana Families for Vaccines.

Up next was HB182 by Rep Kathy Edmonston which will prohibit schools from requiring covid vaccination for school attendance. Again, Democrats went to bat for vaccines, not their constituents. They seem to be ok with students being required to receive experimental drugs for school attendance, especially Rep Amiee Freeman from New Orleans. There was no outrage that the Louisiana Department of Health granted approval to 86 NOLA city schools to require covid vaccination before they were FDA-approved for the intended age groups. Opposition to the bill also came from Louisiana Families for Vaccines - they haven’t met a vaccine they don’t like - and LABI, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry lobby. LABI seems to be besties with the bureaucrats at LDH and argued they were well equipped to determine what’s best for Louisiana students, not the legislature. Someone at LABI missed the memo and my article about massive malfeasance at LDH. Thankfully, reps on the committee took LABI to task for their opposition to a bill in education committee dealing with vaccine requirements. Why exactly was LABI there? And why are they in support of experimental drugs being required for school attendance?

The bill passed 6-3, with all Democrats voting against it, and should be heard on the House Floor next week. We will let you know when both bills will be up for a vote on the House Floor.

And that was just Tuesday…

On Wednesday, we made our first foray in the Senate this year with Rep Chuck Owen’s HB291, the No Patient Left Alone Act. Remember what happened in Senate Health and Welfare last year when the committee failed the children of the state by voting against Rep Bagley’s HCR3? It’s still the same ol’ committee and the elections can’t get here quickly enough.

After unopposed passage in House Health and Welfare and a unanimous vote of 100-0 on the House Floor, Senators Mills and Luneau think they can make HB291 passable with a little work. I cringe to think what they intend, but I am extremely thankful that Rep Owen has allowed us into the discussion on any revisions. Leesville, he represents you well.

HB291 will go up for a vote in Senate Health and Welfare next Wednesday, May 10th.

Now for some very exciting news…

If you have been following the lawsuit I am a plaintiff in currently, MO v Biden, you may have heard of the Election Integrity Partnership and the Virality Project. The individuals running these projects are sincerely invested - in what I believe to be a truly psychotic manner - in protecting you from what they consider harmful speech.

Well, I have been afforded the opportunity to sue them, as well. In another landmark legal case, Hines v Stamos, America First Legal is taking on the collusion between these entities and the federal government and their efforts to censor Americans’ speech. From America First Legal:

This historic lawsuit alleges that these parties conspired with the federal government to conduct a mass surveillance and censorship operation targeting the political speech of millions of Americans on social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (under its prior ownership). This operation was specifically designed to target conservative political speech on questions of great public interest like election integrity, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccine mandates.

The scope of the surveillance and censorship cannot be overstated. The Defendants admitted that during 2020, they surveilled a staggering 859 million posts on Twitter alone and that they tracked for possible censorship almost 22 million Tweets. Again, during seven months in 2021, they tracked posts about COVID-19 with about 200 million engagements for possible censorship. Americans who dared to speak out against the woke liberal orthodoxy that has infiltrated every sector of corporate America would face the threat of censorship and de-platforming by Big Tech giants and these elusive surveillance organizations acting together with the federal government.

AFL’s lawsuit alleges that this massive operation was concocted in collusion with government officials — including federal national security officials — to evade the First Amendment, all while shielding the government bureaucracy. If proven, this is an overt, intentional, and explosive violation of the Constitution at the hands of the government.

As I have stated several times, censorship kills. The censorship that these individual took part in deprived Americans of the truth about effective treatments and the ugly truth about the harms associated with covid vaccines. Countless individuals died as a result. This lawsuit will not bring them justice, but it will prevent the government from creating these partnerships and censoring Americans in the future.

Many thanks to America First Legal, John Sauer, and Julianna Parks for taking on this unprecedented case.

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